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...December Charles Nagel, in charge of the Brooklyn Museum, got the nod from St. Louis (his home town). Soon afterward Edgar Schenck, director of the Albright Gallery in Buffalo, was tapped by Brooklyn. Schenck frankly stated his reasons for shifting: "Better salary and wider scope of activity...
...recipe: "To comfort ye brains, and for ye palsie, and for ye giddiness of the head. Take a handful of rose flowers, cloves, mace, nutmeg, all in a powder, quilt in a little bag and sprinkle with rose water, mixed with malmsey wine, and lay it in ye nod of ye neck...
...best acting job of his career, as a true-to-life patsy in On the Waterfront, Brando got the nod from the New York Film Critics, Film Daily and the Hollywood stars themselves, who were polled by the United Press. Newcomer Grace Kelly, who smoothly dressed up Rear Window, Dial M for Murder and Green Fire (see below} with what Director Alfred Hitchcock has called her "sexual elegance," but who performed most stunningly in her biggest acting part as the embittered wife in The Country Girl, won hands up with the New York Film Critics, and the National Board...
Once upon an unsophisticated time, a playwright could draw laughs from an audience by just a nod towards Sex. But then pristine T.V. came along. The movies, sensing competition, announced that they had grown up and had learned that children do not grow on trees. Everyone hailed this as a sign of maturity, except of course the playwrights, who felt that they might be losing some of their audience if Screen sex became as naughty as Stage sex. So they decided to make their scripts really disgusting. Boston has already seen one of these New Look comedies this season--Black...
Bill Clearly broke the scoreless deadlock at 1:26 of the second period when he got around the defense, faked Lawn, and slipped the puck past him. Defense man Nod Ahoy made it 3 to 0 at the 13-minute mark on a long shot from the left lards through the legs of several North eastern players...